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                         Subject:  SPANISH                                                                                               Code No.: 40
                                                                                                                      
                                                                        SYLLABUS
                     
                    Unit –I: Grammatical Aspects, Linguistics, Methodology, and Translation 
                             i)  Modes, Tenses, Use of the past  
                             ii)  Prepositions and other grammatical categories 
                             iii) Language as a System of Systems 
                             iv) Methods of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language 
                             v)  Problems of Translation in Practice 
                    Unit-II: Advanced Use of Spanish Language 
                             i)        Use of Proverbs and Refrains  
                             ii)       Modismos and Idiomatic Expressions  
                             iii)      Synonyms/Antonyms  
                             iv)       Metaphors and Similes  
                             v)        Text Analysis 
                    Unit-III: Spain: Pre-history and Medieval Literature and Culture 
                                  i)  Making  of  Iberia,  Greek  and  Roman  Colonizations  and  their 
                                       Contributions  
                                  ii)  Visigoths and the Advent of Christianity  
                                  iii) Political and Cultural Mosaic of Al Andalus  
                                  iv) The  reconquista  and  the  Cultural  Efflorescence  of  Christian 
                                       Kingdoms    
                                  v)  The       Formation  of  Spanish  Language  and  Early  Literary 
                                       Manifestations (epic, lyric, popular, religious verse)    
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         Unit-IV: Early Modern Spain 
           i)  Catholic Kings and the Spanish Empire, the Habsburgs and the Bourbons 
           ii)  Inquisition,  Expulsion  of  Jews  and  Moriscos  and  the  Making  of  a 
             Homogenous Spain, Honour Code 
           iii) Art, Literature and Culture during the Transition to the Renaissance 
           iv) Renaissance and Baroque in Art, Literature and Culture 
           v)  Golden Age Literature 
            
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         Unit-V: 18  and 19  Century Spain: Between Modernity and Tradition  
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           i)  Enlightenment:  el  despotismo  ilustrado  and  18   Century  Cultural 
             Manifestations 
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           ii)  Historic  Panorama  of  19   Century:  Spanish  War  of  Independence, 
             Constitution of Cádiz, Carlist Wars, Restoration 
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           iii) 19  Century Art and Culture  
           iv) Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism 
           v)  Generation of 1898 and Modernism 
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         Unit-VI: 20  and 21  Century: Contemporary Spain   
           i)  The  Second  Republic,  the  Popular  Front  and  the  Spanish  Civil  War: 
             Fascism, Anarchism and Socialism  
           ii)  Vanguard movements and the Generation of 1927 
           iii) Post-war and Contemporary Spanish Literature, Art and Culture 
           iv) Transition to Democracy, Constitution of 1978, Spain and the European 
             Union, Spanish Economic Miracle and Crisis 
           v)  Cinema, Performing Arts and Sports 
          
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         Unit-VII: Latin America: from Pre-Hispanic to Colonial Period 
           i)  Aztecs, Mayas, Incas and others: Religion, Cults, Monuments  
           ii)  Knowledge Systems of Indigenous Civilizations 
           iii) Beginnings of European Invasions and Conquest  
           iv) Colonization  of  America  and  Mestizaje,  Viceroyalties  and  Economic 
             Structure of Empire 
           v)  Literary  and  artistic expressions (Códices, crónicas, cartas and diarios, 
             Epic and Baroque in the Americas)  
         Unit-VIII: Independence, Formation of Nation States, Caudillos and Caciques:  
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           i)  Liberators and 19  Century Statesmen of Latin America 
           ii)  Romanticism and the Novel of the Nation  
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           iii) The Mexican Revolution and Foreign Interventions in Latin America (19  
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             and 20  Century) 
           iv) Modernism, Latin American Identity Construction through Essays 
           v)  Regionalist, Indigenous and Gaucho Literature 
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         Unit-IX: 20  Century Latin America 
           i)  Revolutions, Dictatorships and the Return to Democracy  
           ii)  The New Latin American Novel, the Boom and After  
           iii) Women’s writing, Testimonio, la nueva canción and subaltern voices 
           iv) Artistic and Literary Vanguards and Latin American Poetic Movements  
           v)  Cinema, Performing Arts and Sports  
          
          
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       Unit-X: Contemporary Latin America 
         i)  Internationalisation, Regional Integration, Indigenous Assertion and New 
          Social Movements, De-colonial Thought  
         ii)  De-anchoring of Latin American Writing. Border and Exile Literatures 
         iii) Experimental Texts (the Merger of Performance, Cinema and Literature) 
         iv) Non-Fiction Writing, the nueva crónica, the Detective Novel and the New 
          Historical Novel  
         v)  Cinema, Performing Arts and Sports  
        
        
        
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